DOCSLIB.ORG

Preparing to Pivot Pakistan's Shrinking News Media to Digital

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Preparing to Pivot Pakistan's Shrinking News Media to Digital Journalist Fellowship Paper . Preparing to pivot Pakistan’s shrinking news media to digital By Ramisha Ali March 2021 Hilary Term Sponsor: Thompson Reuters Foundation 1 Contents Acknowledgements 4 Introduction 5 Attacks on the press 7 Financial pressures 9 Regulation of online media 11 Converging problems 12 Case Study: Rappler, The Philippines 14 What is Rappler? 15 Unwavering journalism through political pressure and censorship 17 Game-changers: Rappler’s most innovative digital storytelling practices 18 Case Study: Scroll.in, India 21 What is Scroll.in? 23 Unwavering journalism through political pressure and censorship 24 Game-changers: Scroll.in’s most innovative digital storytelling practices 25 Prepping journalists for a digital transition 28 Build your smartphone kit 28 Master all the basics 29 Learn the business 29 Know your audience 30 Keep updating your technical knowledge 30 Train each other 30 Smash your apps 30 A daily dose of social media 31 Showcase your work 31 Up your CV and LinkedIn game 31 Conclusion 33 2 Acknowledgements First and foremost, thank you to Meera Selva and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen for giving me the privilege of attending the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The experience of living in Oxford, attending seminars at the Reuters Institute, and meeting extraordinary fellow journalists from around the globe has been transformative and encouraging for me. Many thanks to the Thompson Reuters Foundation for being my sponsor and making my aspiration of visiting the University of Oxford and engaging with highly intellectual academics and professionals come true. Thanks to Caithlin Mercer for supporting me in my research and her constant guidance, especially during a dismal time when one of my closest friends passed away in a tragic accident. Many thanks to Miriam Grace A. Go (Rappler), Rohan Venkataramakrishnan (Scroll.in), Riyaad Minty (TRT World), Laureano Perez Izquierdo (Infobae), and Talha Ahad (The Centrum Media) for sharing their valuable opinions, insights, and experiences. Thanks to the most fierce, fabulous, and remarkable female journalists who inspired me in many ways and made me feel at home in Oxford during the Michaelmas Term: Kathy English, Jenni Kangasniemi, Rebecca Skippage, Evelyn Jones, Sangmee An, and Catarina Carvalho. Also, thanks to my other family and journalist fellows in the Hilary Term: Adele Santelli, Peter Erdelyi, and Rachel Chitra, who didn’t just share my bubble during the lockdown but also many memorable walks, conversations, and dinners. Much gratitude to my Editor-in-chief, Baker Atyani, and Managing editor Haroon Rashid for believing in me and allowing me to prosper. Also my co-correspondent Amar Guriro for holding the fort while I attended the RISJ fellowship. Finally, thanks to my family and my friend Hira Anis, who have always motivated me to work hard for my dreams and inspired me to be a better version of myself. 3 Introduction Bangladesh and Pakistan are the countries furthest behind in the digital revolution, according to a report on emerging digital life in South and Southeast Asia published in 2020 by Deloitte and INCLUSION Fintech Conference. Low social and economic development levels have created a huge gap with other countries when it comes to digital infrastructure and mobility penetration.1 This has immensely impacted the emergence of digital news media in Pakistan, at a time when our industry is already under immense pressure in other areas – namely freedom of the press, and failing business models. In a fast-evolving digital age, the fear of being left behind is ever-present throughout the global media ecosystem. But while we’ve seen legacy media in most countries adopting digital best practices – creating custom-built newsrooms for digital, embracing the mobile-first mantra – we’ve yet to see that same urgency in my home country of Pakistan.2 Instead, growing digitisation has created new vulnerabilities. The use of this technology has frequently outpaced the construction of institutions, business models, and other systems that could aid in their management.3 Now Pakistan’s media faces a three-pronged attack: journalists are arrested or abducted in the course of their work. Financial viability is threatened by a government determined 1 Deloitte and INCLUSION Fintech Conference, 2020. "The Next Wave" Emerging digital life in South and Southeast Asia. [online] Available at: <https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/cn/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/deloi tte-cn-tmt-inclusion-en-200924.pdf> 2 The New York Times, 2014. Innovation. [online] Available at: <https://www.presscouncil.org.au/uploads/52321/ufiles/The_New_York_Times_Innovation_Report_-_March_2014 .pdf> 3"The cyber frontier and digital pitfalls in the Global South" (2021), p. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2017.1408403. 4 to weaponise advertising against critical outlets. And new regulations further hamstring media outlets and suppress free speech. This paper will explain the threats Pakistani journalists face, then look at two outlets – Rappler in the Philippines, and Scroll.in in India – that have faced similar challenges and prevailed. It will look at the innovations they adopted to keep their independence, and will conclude with some suggestions for Pakistani journalists on how to prepare for the storm they are living through. 5 Attacks on the press On May 28, 2021, BBC HARDtalk presenter Steven Sackur asked Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s current Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, “Day after day, month after month, your government isn’t protecting journalists. It isn’t protecting freedom of speech. You’ve been in office for some time, what are you doing about it?”4 HARDtalk’s Steven Sackur interviewing Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s current Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, on 28 May 2021 This interview was conducted a few days after a Pakistani journalist Asad Ali Toor was attacked, bound, tortured, and gagged by three unidentified men at his apartment in Islamabad. According to Toor, one of the attackers said he was an agent of Pakistan Inter-services Intelligence Agency (ISI), although the agency quickly distanced itself from the claim.5 Chaudhry sidestepped addressing the mouldering state of freedom of speech, media, and journalists in Pakistan.6 He responded to Sackur’s question dismissively, saying that it has been “fashionable” in the Western media to accuse ISI whenever these 4 BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Fawad Chaudhry: Is Imran Khan reneging on his promises to Pakistan? (2021). Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1 5 (www.dw.com), D. (2019) Asad Ali Toor: Khan government 'worst for media in Pakistan's history' | DW | 26.05.2021, DW.COM. Available at: https://www.dw.com/en/asad-ali-toor-khan-government-worst-for-media-in-pakistans-history/av-57675962 6 BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Fawad Chaudhry: Is Imran Khan reneging on his promises to Pakistan? (2021). Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1 6 incidents happen and that there has been a history of journalists invoking the intelligence agencies for immigration purposes. The implication: the bruises on Toor’s body were staged to leave Pakistan and settle in another country. This is not an isolated event. In the past few years, it has become the norm for Pakistani journalists to receive harassment after publishing or airing a critical story. Many factors contribute to the situation, but no concrete steps have been taken to curb this menace, so much so that Pakistan’s rank on the World Press Freedom Index has fallen to 145 out of 180 countries. Since Imran Khan’s election as Prime Minister in July 2018, the influence of the nation’s military machinery has expanded dramatically. There have been numerous cases in which the military used its power to impose pressure or censor voices.7 On 31 May 2021, one of Pakistan’s best known TV presenters, Hamid Mir was banned from his talk show on Geo TV after he spoke against the attack of Asad Ali Toor. “This is the real tragedy of Pakistan today. The country is being run by unknown people. Everyone knows who they are, but no one dares identify them. From the shadows, they evade accountability,” Mir wrote in an opinion piece he wrote for the Guardian. “The pattern is depressingly predictable. It is always critical and independent-minded journalists who are targeted. The attacks come after a series of threats. After the attack, the victim is accused of faking the incident to seek publicity or political asylum. Despite the evidence, the attackers are never caught. Instead, the victims are called traitors and even made to face new charges.”8 A month before Toor’s incident, senior Pakistani journalist and former chief of the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Absar Alam, was shot while walking near his home in Islamabad. The shooting came after he had been summoned by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for his social media posts criticising the intervention in politics by “the establishment”.9 7 Pakistan : Under the military establishment’s thumb | Reporters without borders (2021). Available at: https://rsf.org/en/Pakistan 8 Imran Khan promised us press freedom in Pakistan. Now journalists are under attack | Hamid Mir (2021). Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/02/imran-khan-press-freedom-pakistan-journalists 9 Journalist Absar Alam shot, wounded in Pakistan - Committee to Protect Journalists (2021). Available at: https://cpj.org/2021/04/journalist-absar-alam-shot-wounded-in-pakistan/ 7 In a similar incident, YouTuber Matiullah Jan went missing for 12 hours in Islamabad and was released 28 miles west of Islamabad in a deserted area. Jan was abducted outside his wife’s workplace, a local school, by several men – most of them armed and uniform-clad. He was interrogated and beaten for several hours. Before starting his YouTube channel, Jan had a 24-year career as a journalist before leaving Waqt Television in 2018.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Report on Information and Communication for Development
    Policy and Research Programme on Role of Media and Communication in Development Final Project Report April 2010 – March 2012 Grant Reference Number: AG4601 MIS Code: 732-620-029 Contact: James Deane, Head of Policy [email protected] BBC Media Action Bush House, PO Box 76, Strand, London WC2B 4PH Telephone +44 (0) 207 557 2462, Fax +44 (0)207 379 1622, E-mail: [email protected] www.bbcworldservicetrust.org 2 BBC Media Action Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media and Communication in Democratic Development INTRODUCTION This is the final report of the Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media and Communication Development. It provides a narrative overview of progress and impact between April 2010 and March 2012 of the DFID funded Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media in Development, building on an earlier report submitted for activities carried out between April 2010 and March 2011. In 2006 the Department for International Development (DFID) allocated £2.5 million over five years for the establishment of a 'Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media and Communication in Development' to be managed by BBC Media Action (formerly the BBC World Service Trust). The Programme ran from July 2006 through to March 2012, including a no-cost extension. A small additional contribution to the Programme from the Swedish International Development Agency was received over the period (approximately £300,000 over the period 2009- 2012). In November 2011, DFID reached agreement with the BBC World Service Trust (since January 2012, renamed as BBC Media Action) for a new Global Grant amounting to £90 million over five years.
    [Show full text]
  • HAIL: an Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006
    Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship All Computer Science and Engineering Research Computer Science and Engineering Report Number: WUCSE-2006-36 2006-01-01 HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006 Charles M. Kastner This thesis examines in detail the Hardware-Accelerated Identification of Languages (HAIL) project. The goal of HAIL is to provide an accurate means to identify the language and encoding used in streaming content, such as documents passed over a high-speed network. HAIL has been implemented on the Field-programmable Port eXtender (FPX), an open hardware platform developed at Washington University in St. Louis. HAIL can accurately identify the primary languages and encodings used in text at rates much higher than what can be achieved by software algorithms running on microprocessors. Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research Part of the Computer Engineering Commons, and the Computer Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Kastner, Charles M., " HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006" Report Number: WUCSE-2006-36 (2006). All Computer Science and Engineering Research. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/187 Department of Computer Science & Engineering - Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1045 - St. Louis, MO - 63130 - ph: (314) 935-6160. Department of Computer Science & Engineering 2006-36 HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006 Authors: Charles M. Kastner Corresponding Author: [email protected] Web Page: http://www.arl.wustl.edu/projects/fpx/reconfig.htm Abstract: This thesis examines in detail the Hardware-Accelerated Identification of Languages (HAIL) project.
    [Show full text]
  • A Capitol Fourth Monday, July 4 at 8Pm on WOSU TV Details on Page 3 All Programs Are Subject to Change
    July 2016 • wosu.org A Capitol Fourth Monday, July 4 at 8pm on WOSU TV details on page 3 All programs are subject to change. VOLUME 37 • NUMBER 7 Airfare (UPS 372670) is published except for June, July and August by: WOSU Public Media 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43210 614.292.9678 Copyright 2016 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form or by any means without express written permission from the publisher. Subscription is by a Columbus on the Record celebrates a Milestone. minimum contribution of $60 to WOSU Public Media, of which $3.25 is allocated to Airfare. Periodicals postage paid at Columbus, Ohio. WOSU Politics – A Landmark Summer POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Airfare, 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43210 This will be a special summer of political coverage on WOSU TV. Now in its eleventh season, Columbus on the Record will celebrate its 500th episode in July. When it debuted in January, WOSU Public Media 2006, Columbus on the Record was the only local political show on Columbus broadcast TV. General Manager Tom Rieland Hosted by Emmy® award-winning moderator Mike Thompson, Columbus on the Record has Director of Marketing Meredith Hart become must-watch TV for political junkies and civic leaders around Ohio. The show, with & Communications its diverse group of panelists, provides thoughtful and balanced analysis of central Ohio’s Membership Rob Walker top stories. “The key to the show is our panelists, all of them volunteers,” says Thompson Friends of WOSU Board who serves as WOSU’s Chief Content Director for News and Public Affairs.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report on the BBC 2019/20
    Ofcom’s Annual Report on the BBC 2019/20 Published 25 November 2020 Raising awarenessWelsh translation available: Adroddiad Blynyddol Ofcom ar y BBC of online harms Contents Overview .................................................................................................................................... 2 The ongoing impact of Covid-19 ............................................................................................... 6 Looking ahead .......................................................................................................................... 11 Performance assessment ......................................................................................................... 16 Public Purpose 1: News and current affairs ........................................................................ 24 Public Purpose 2: Supporting learning for people of all ages ............................................ 37 Public Purpose 3: Creative, high quality and distinctive output and services .................... 47 Public Purpose 4: Reflecting, representing and serving the UK’s diverse communities .... 60 The BBC’s impact on competition ............................................................................................ 83 The BBC’s content standards ................................................................................................... 89 Overview of our duties ............................................................................................................ 96 1 Overview This is our third
    [Show full text]
  • May 2017 All Times Given in UTC/GMT. Local Times
    May 2017 All times given in UTC/GMT. Local Times: Lagos UTC +1 | Cape Town UTC +2 I Nairobi UTC +3 Delhi UTC +5,5 I Bangkok UTC +7 | Hong Kong UTC +8 London UTC +1 | Berlin UTC +2 | Moscow UTC +3 San Francisco UTC -7 | Edmonton UTC -6 | New York UTC -4 All first broadcasts in bold print. All broadcasts in 16:9 format, unless otherwise noted. Programming subject to change at short notice. DW (English) | 2017-05 Index MON 2017-05-01 ................................................................................................... 1 TUE 2017-05-02 ..................................................................................................... 5 WED 2017-05-03 ................................................................................................... 9 THU 2017-05-04 .................................................................................................. 12 FRI 2017-05-05 .................................................................................................... 15 SAT 2017-05-06 ................................................................................................... 18 SUN 2017-05-07 .................................................................................................. 21 MON 2017-05-08 ................................................................................................. 25 TUE 2017-05-09 ................................................................................................... 28 WED 2017-05-10 ................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • TV Journalism & Programme Formats
    Edited with the trial version of Foxit Advanced PDF Editor To remove this notice, visit: www.foxitsoftware.com/shopping TV Journalism & Programme Formats TV Journalism & Programme Formats SEMESTER 3 Study Material for Students 1 Edited with the trial version of Foxit Advanced PDF Editor To remove this notice, visit: www.foxitsoftware.com/shopping TV Journalism & Programme Formats CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MEDIA WORLD Mass communication and Journalism is institutionalized and source specific. It functions through well-organized professionals and has an ever increasing interlace. Mass media has a global availability and it has converted the whole world in to a global village. A qualified journalism professional can take up a job of educating, entertaining, informing, persuading, interpreting, and guiding. Working in print media offers the opportunities to be a news reporter, news presenter, an editor, a feature writer, a photojournalist, etc. Electronic media offers great opportunities of being a news reporter, news editor, newsreader, programme host, interviewer, cameraman, producer, director, etc. Other titles of Mass Communication and Journalism professionals are script writer, production assistant, technical director, floor manager, lighting director, scenic director, coordinator, creative director, advertiser, media planner, media consultant, public relation officer, counselor, front office executive, event manager and others. 2 Edited with the trial version of Foxit Advanced PDF Editor To remove this notice, visit: www.foxitsoftware.com/shopping TV Journalism & Programme Formats INTRODUCTION The book deals with Television for journalism and Writing for visuals. Student will understand the medium f r o m Piece to Camera. The book will tell students about Presentation, Reporting, Interview, Reportage, Live Shows and Anchoring a Show.
    [Show full text]
  • Motivation Explained a Study of War Reporters
    The Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric, is the international gateway for the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Eight departments, associated research institutions and the Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine in Oslo. Established in 1986, Noragric’s contribution to international development lies in the interface between research, education (Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes) and assignments. The Noragric Master thesis are the final theses submitted by students in order to fulfil the requirements under the Noragric Master programme “International Environmental Studies”, “International Development Studies” and “International Relations”. The findings in this thesis do not necessarily reflect the views of Noragric. Extracts from this publication may only be reproduced after prior consultation with the author and on condition that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation contact Noragric. © Maikki Fonneløp, December 2015 [email protected] Noragric Department of International Environment and Development Studies P.O. Box 5003 N-1432 Ås Norway Tel.: +47 64 96 52 00 Fax: +47 64 96 52 01 Internet: http://www.nmbu.no/noragric 1 2 Acknowledgement First I want to thank my supervisor, Associate Professor Stig Jarle Hansen, for his help with the structural and theoretical framework. With his expertise in international relations he has been a source for inspiration, and I want to thank him for his patience and trust. I am grateful for the openhearted discussions I had with author Geir Angell Øygarden about the many topics surrounding war reporters. Thanks to him I was able to get an overview of the vast subject which ultimately led me to decide the objectives I wanted to follow.
    [Show full text]
  • Pakistan Connection Diasporas @ BBC World Service Audience
    Pakistan Connection Diasporas @ BBC World Service Audience Research Report Authors: Marie Gillespie, Sadaf Rivzi, Matilda Andersson, Pippa Virdee, Lucy Michael, Sophie West A BBC World Service / Open University Research Partnership 1 Foreword What does a shop owner in Bradford have in common with a graduate from Princeton USA, a construction worker in Bahrain and a banker in the City of London? All are users of the bbcurdu.com website, and all are part of the global Pakistani diaspora. The term diaspora is used to describe the global dispersion of migrant groups of various kinds. Diasporas are of growing economic, political and cultural significance. In a world where migration, geopolitical dynamics, communication technologies and transport links are continually changing, it is clear that culture and geography no longer map neatly onto one another. Understanding diaspora groups inside and outside its base at Bush House, London, is ever more important for the BBC World Service, too. Diaspora audiences are increasingly influencing the way the BBC conceives and delivers output. For example, over 60% of the weekly users of bbcurdu.com are accessing the site from outside the subcontinent, and this proportion is rising. The same trend has been observed for other BBC language websites. (See BBC World Agenda, September 2008.) The research presented here is based on a unique partnership between BBC World Service Marketing Communication and Audiences (MC&A) and The Open University. It was funded primarily by MC&A but it was also generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) though the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Research Programme, which funded a project entitled ‘Tuning In: Diasporic Contact Zones at BBC World Service’ (Grant Award reference AH/ES58693/1).
    [Show full text]
  • Implications of the BBC World Service Cuts
    House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Implications of the BBC World Service Cuts Written evidence Only those submissions written specifically for the Committee and accepted by the Committee as evidence for the inquiry into the Implications of the BBC World Service Cuts are included. 1 List of written evidence 1 Gilberto Ferraz Page 4 2 Corinne Podger 6 3 Rosie Kaynak 7 4 Keith Perron 8 5 Jonathan Stoneman 11 6 Keith Somerville 13 7 Sir John Tusa 19 8 John Rowlett 23 9 Jacqueline Stainburn 24 10 Richard Hamilton 25 11 Elzbieta Rembowska 26 12 Ian Mitchell 27 13 Marc Starr 28 14 Andrew Bolton 29 15 Patrick Xavier 30 16 Ailsa Auchnie 31 17 Catherine Westcott 32 18 Caroline Driscoll 35 19 BECTU 37 20 Rajesh Joshi, Rajesh Priyadarshi 40 and Marianne Landzettel 21 Clem Osei 44 22 Sam Miller 45 23 The Kenya National Kiswahili Association (CHAKITA) 47 24 Mike Fox 50 25 Kofi Annan 51 26 Geraldine Timlin 52 27 Nigel Margerison 53 28 Dennis Sewell 54 29 Voice of the Listener & Viewer 56 30 Kiyo Akasaka 60 31 Neville Harms 61 32 M Plaut 64 33 Graham Mytton 65 34 National Union of Journalists 67 35 National Union of Journalists Parliamentary Group 76 36 Trish Flanagan 78 37 Ben Hartshorn 80 38 Naleen Kumar 81 39 Jorge da Paz Rodrigues 83 40 BBC World Service 84 41 BBC World Service 89 2 42 Marc Glinert 100 43 Andrew Tyrie MP 101 44 BBC World Service 103 3 Written evidence from Gilberto Ferraz (Retired member of the World Service, in which served for 30 years) PROPOSED CLOSING DOWN OF THE BBC PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SERVICE The announcement of the closure of the Portuguese Language Service to Africa is lamentable and wrong for the following reasons: 1.
    [Show full text]
  • 21 Types of News
    21 Types Of News In the fIrst several chapters, we saw media systems in flux. Fewer newspaper journalists but more websites, more hours of local TV news but fewer reporters, more “news/talk” radio but less local news radio, national cable news thriving, local cable news stalled. But what matters most is not the health of a particular sector but how these changes net out, and how the pieces fit together. Here we will consider the health of the news media based on the region of coverage, whether neigh- borhood, city, state, country, or world. Hyperlocal The term “hyperlocal” commonly refers to news coverage on a neighborhood or even block-by-block level. The tradi- tional media models, even in their fattest, happiest days could not field enough reporters to cover every neighborhood on a granular level. As in all areas, there are elements of progress and retreat. On one hand, metropolitan newspapers have cut back on regional editions, which in all likelihood means less coverage of neighborhoods in those regions. But the Internet has revolutionized the provision of hyperlocal information. The first wave of technology— LISTSERV® and other email groups—made it far easier for citizens to inform one another of what was happening with the neighborhood crime watch or the new grocery store or the death of citizens can now snap a beloved senior who lived on the block for 40 years. More recently, social media tools have enabled citizens to self-organize, and connect in ever more picture of potholes and dynamic ways. Citizens can now snap pictures of potholes and send them to send to city hall, or share city hall, or share with each other via Facebook, Twitter or email.
    [Show full text]
  • Analysis of the BBC News Online Coverage of the Iraq War
    Greenlee School of Journalism and Journalism Publications Communication 2006 Analysis of the BBC News online coverage of the Iraq War Daniela V. Dimitrova Iowa State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/jlmc_pubs Part of the Mass Communication Commons The complete bibliographic information for this item can be found at https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ jlmc_pubs/20. For information on how to cite this item, please visit http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ howtocite.html. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journalism Publications by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Analysis of the BBC News online coverage of the Iraq War Abstract The BBC and its coverage of the 2003 Iraq War have received much criticism as well as much praise around the world. Some observers have attacked the news coverage of the BBC, claiming it was clearly biased in support of the war, serving as a propaganda tool for the British government. Others have credited the BBC for its in-depth reporting from the war zone, juxtaposing it to the blatantly patriotic U.S. news coverage. This chapter examines the news coverage the BBC provided on its Web site during the 2003 Iraq War and analyzes the themes and Web-specific eaturf es used to enhance war reporting. Disciplines Mass Communication Comments This book chapter is published as Dimitrova, Daniela V.
    [Show full text]
  • Business Reporting on the Internet
    BUSINESS REPORTING ON THE INTERNET A REPORT PREPARED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS COMMITTEE BY ANDREW LYMER UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM UK ROGER DEBRECENY NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE GLEN L. GRAY CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT NORTHRIDGE USA ASHEQ RAHMAN NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE NOVEMBER 1999 This Discussion Paper is issued by the IASC staff to stimulate thinking. The Discussion Paper has not been considered by the Board of the International Accounting Standards Committee and does not necessarily represent the views of the Board. No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action as a result of any material in this publication can be accepted by the authors or publisher. © 1999 International Accounting Standards Committee ISBN 0 905625 77 3 All rights reserved. No part of this Discussion Paper may be translated, reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form either in whole or in part or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the International Accounting Standards Committee. The ® “Hexagon Device”, “IAS”, “IASC” and “International Accounting Standards”are registered Trade Marks of the International Accounting Standards Committee and should not be used without the approval of the International Accounting Standards Committee. International Accounting Standards Committee, 166 Fleet Street, London EC4A
    [Show full text]